Akhtubinsk

city Akhtubinsk Ахтубинск flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Astrakhan Rajon Akhtubinski mayor Amanga Alinkaleevich Narusbayev Founded 1959 surface 17  km² population 41,853 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2462 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 1  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 85141 Post Code 416500-416507 License Plate 30th OKATO 12 402 Website adm-akhtubinsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 18 '  N , 46 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 18 '0 "  N , 46 ° 9' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Astrakhan Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Akhtubinsk ( Russian Ахтубинск ) is a city in the north of Russia's Astrakhan oblast . It has 41,853 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is 270 km northwest of Astrakhan on the left bank of the Akhtuba , an estuary of the Volga . The city is only 30 km from the Kazakh border and 50 km from the famous Salt Lake Baskunchak removed.

Akhtubinsk has an important base for the Russian Air Force and a test pilot school.

history

The city Akhtubinsk was in 1959 from the settlements Vladimirovka (Russian Владимировка ) Petropawlowskoje ( Петропавловское ) and Akhtuba ( Ахтуба formed).

Population development

The following overview shows the development of the population of Akhtubinsk.

year	Residents	comment
1939	17,673	thereof Petropavlovskoye 10,876, Vladimirovka 6,797
1959	22,321
1970	43,466
1979	47,752
1989	50,261
2002	45,542
2010	41,853

Note: census data

traffic

The city is located on the side road from Volschski via Kharabali to Astrakhan or on the railway line Volgograd - Astrakhan.

Further educational institutions

• Branch of the Volgograd State University

sons and daughters of the town

• Anton Merslyutin (* 1987), handball player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Akhtubinsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Akhtubinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)